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Review of Ancient Aliens S06E11 "Aliens and Mysterious Mountains"

12/14/2013

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In my review of the Ancient Aliens episode about islands, I suggested in jest that they would start doing an entire series about geographical features. I said, and I quote, “We can look forward next season, I suppose, to ‘Aliens and Mountains,’ ‘Aliens and Really Tall Trees,’ or ‘Aliens and Pleasant Lakes.’” Ha! I was wrong. We didn’t have to wait that long. Just two episodes later we get Ancient Aliens S06E11 “Aliens and Mysterious Mountains.” Apparently the show failed to meet even my lowest expectations.

We open in Nepal in 2007 to look at the ancient sky caves of Mustang, the subject of a National Geographic article last year. Robert Schoch tells us that they are so old that no one knows who built them, but they obviously are not all that old since they contain Buddhist texts and art. The show basically reads us the National Geographic article, almost word for word, testifying to the depth of their research.

Andrew Collins tells us that mountains are the closest point to the sky and thus the best place to communicate with the gods. This may be true in a spiritual sense, but any alien that could cross the gulfs of space could also make the trip to ground level. Besides, have we not already heard that aliens live on islands, underground, and beneath the sea? The whole earth is lousy with aliens, except, of course, wherever we happen to look for them.

This leads us to Mt. Olympus in Greece, the home of the Greek pantheon, and David Wilcock asserts the peak had special powers that led the Greeks to believe real gods lived atop it. Interestingly, Skeptical Inquirer reported in its January/February 2014 edition that Wilcock travels with a security detail from Black Ops Corp. and at the Contact in the Desert conference in July used his security guards to seal the exits during his speech, arousing protest from fellow pundit William Henry, who got into a screaming fit over false imprisonment. This is much more interesting than Wilcock’s dumb ideas about Mt. Olympus. Henry calls that Greek gods “huge sky beings” who descended from the sky. This would be news to Aphrodite, who rose up from the sea; or Athena, who emerged from the head of Zeus; or Artemis and Apollo, who were born on Delos. David Childress asserts, falsely, that the discovery of Troy and the ruins of Delphi showed “archaeologists” and “historians” that Greek myths were true. The existence of the city does not prove the stories told of it any more than the existence of New York City proves the existence of Spider-Man.

We listen to a retelling of the battle between the Gods and the Titans, with footage recycled from Clash of the Gods, an earlier History Channel series with a Christian conservative subtext. Giorgio Tsoukalos states that references to gold and jewels on Olympus are really the buttons and blinking lights of a spaceship, because: Star Trek. The aliens are still stuck with 1960s sci-fi decor in the ancient astronaut imagination. He claims that the Gods and the Titans engaged in “all-out war” from their mutual military bases on Olympus and Oryths, neither of which retains any evidence of these alleged battles. I guess they used their disintegrator rays. Of course, if you take the Titanomachy literally, the defeated aliens are now waiting in cages under the earth, where we ought to be able to find these “underground aliens.”

After this, we move forward to China to discuss Taoism. We listen to discussion of the sacred mountain of Taoism and see some pretty footage because, apparently, this show is a travelogue rather than a documentary in any real sense. We hear the same old stories about magic powers, this time about Xuan Wu (Zhenwu), a Chinese god whom the show tries to suggest had a historical existence. Tsoukalos is taken by the suggestion that he returned to the sky on a dragon, which animal Tsoukalos states “never existed” but was in fact a misunderstood aircraft. Oddly enough, this is not the oldest version of the story. That version said that Xuan Wu retired to a monastery (another has his intestines merge with the earth), but it may be a rationalization of a still older tale since Xuan Wu shares his name with the Black Tortoise, the constellation of the north—and, if anyone on this show cared, this would be better evidence for an “alien” or stellar connection than Taoist meditation is. I can’t find a dragon myth associated with Xuan Wu in standard Chinese mythology sources, but a late text from 1415 CE states that he “drives a flying dragon,” according to Noelle Giuffrida, but this may be conflation with the Yisheng, a deity known to drive a dragon vehicle, and who served with Xuan Wu among the Four Saints.

Next we travel to Taticev Karmen in Macedonia and the far-off year of 2001, where archaeologists discovered a 4,000-year-old observatory, which Collins says “has been recognized by NASA as one of the most impressive” observatories “of its kind,” whatever that is supposed to mean. NASA does not designate archaeological sites or rank them by their majesty. In truth, the Kokino megalithic observatory is a natural rock outcropping that has been modified by Neolithic humans to mark the solstices, the equinoxes, and the path of the moon. NASA listed it in a 2005 web list of ancient observatories, where they called it the fourth oldest in the world. It was not an official investigation into ancient astronomy, and no one from NASA has ever visited the site, according to the Bradt guide to Macedonia (fourth ed., 2012). Childress calls the site “advanced” knowledge and wonders how anyone could have marked the path of the moon by so bizarre a method as “looking up at the sky.”

Collins claims Angkor is also one of the oldest observatories, even though it is medieval in date.

For no good reason this leads to a claim that the Nebra Sky Disk contains a depiction of the Pleiades, which they also see at Kokino. This confuses me because I see many references in amateur websites to a single rock that allegedly marks the position of the Pleiades there, but a 2009 academic article about the archaeoastronomy of the site does not discuss any such alignment. In fact, this other academic article argues that the original builders of the site targeted Aldebaran, not the Pleiades, in order to mark the equinox, and the Pleiades, by virtue of appearing “above” Aldebaran were therefore something of a secondary target.

Tsoukalos suggests that the Kokino stone carvings, which are conventionally called “thrones,” although they are basically just roughly modified geometric forms, are the “exact same” shape as geometrically carved stones as Sacsayhuaman in Peru, in Greece, in Italy, and elsewhere. I don’t think that squares and rectangles are too far beyond human imagination, and there are only so many shapes for symbolic chairs, if chairs they be. The show fails to note that the Kokino site originated in a natural formation.

At the halfway point, we’re off to the Andes in 2009 to watch a procession of traditional Incan festival activity, performed today under a Catholic façade. Called the Qoyllur Rit’i (Snow Star Pilgrimage), the procession marks the disappearance of the Pleiades for 45 days before the winter solstice, a calendar marker signaling the coming of the solstice. This isn’t enough for Ancient Aliens, which wants us to believe (though they won’t say) that the aliens came from the Pleiades. Robert Schoch seems to understand that the star festival had to do with the agricultural cycle and the calendar, but the narrator will have none of it. He asks if the presiding spirits of the festival, the apus, were aliens, and David Wilcock suggests that UFO exhaust fumes made the ice of the nearby mountain into a magical panacea and therefore fitting for a festival.

Back in China we look at Mount Tai and hear how a cloud and a light beam told in a myth about the mountain meant that UFOs hovered over the mountain and guided Chinese leaders for centuries—because Chinese people, I guess, are strange and exotic and of course take their orders from a hidden cabal of aliens. Why else would they be communist? You don’t hear much about British or American leaders taking orders from aliens; in fact, when Ancient Aliens tried to make the case for aliens in colonial America, they had the Founders working on equal terms with the aliens, and, later, they had the British monarchs as the beloved bloodline descendants of the aliens. Even the Japanese emperors were given bloodline status. Somehow, though, the Chinese are comparatively weak-willed and under the aliens’ thrall.

Mountain myths from Japan follow after the break, focusing on evil bird-demons. These the show compares to bird-gods and bird-men from around the world, and Childress says that the wings are symbolic of spaceships. That symbolism is allowed, but the idea of wings symbolizing anything else is just silly. Tsoukalos relates this to the Anunnaki, whom he fails to understand are not the same as the griffin-demons shown on the screen and to which he actually refers. These were a whole different set of Mesopotamian beings; the Anunnaki were not winged in the surviving references to them. Tsoukalos also lies about “Sumerian” mythology claiming that Anunnaki will return; this is a Sitchin invention and has no basis in actual texts, since the Anunnaki, being creatures of the sky and the earth, are always here.

Tsoukalos says that they escaped to the mountains to escape detection, but why? If they are a ruling master race, they don’t need to hide. Worse, whom are they hiding from since they were intimately involved with us down to the Middle Ages and beyond, if we take the show at its word? Are they only hiding from post-Enlightenment rationalists? If they are still coming to shamans, and tribal peoples, and even rural Americans, do they simply hate upper class urbanites?

Kathleen McGowan Coppens, who believes she is the lineal descendant of Jesus, tries to tell us that pyramids the world over are all the same because they get smaller as they get higher, which I guess is something that only Grandpa Jesus or his alien friends could have told ancient people to do. The on-screen graphics show spaceships docking on pyramids the way zeppelins were supposed to dock atop the Empire State Building.

I am so bored that I don’t care that William Henry is repeating Philip Coppens’s lie that the Egyptians claimed that the gods delivered the plans for the pyramids, something unsupported in any ancient Egyptian inscription or papyrus.

This leads us to UFO sightings around mountains in an attempt to suggest that the aliens are still coming and going today. The show asks us if mountains contain alien bases, referencing the claims for a buried alien outpost in Bugarach, France during the New Age 2012 Apocalypse crisis when thousands though a UFO in the mountain would save them from the destruction of the earth. As I discussed last year, this story about an “alien base” in the mountain descends from the ancient myth of the Sleeping King, which in turn derives from an Indo-European myth associated with Odin and can also be seen in the story of Zalmoxis and the supernatural underground palace. It’s about death, resurrection, and immortality. Heck, Bugarach wasn’t even the only European mountain to localize the alien version of the story last year!

We finish with Kathleen McGowan Coppens citing a book “that came out in the 1890s”--A Dweller on Two Planets by Frederick Spencer Oliver, a Theosophy-inspired Atlantis text—as proof that aliens lived beneath California’s Mt. Shasta from ancient times:
What secrets perchance are about us? We do not know as we lie there, our bodies resting, our souls filled with peace, nor do we know until many years are passed out through the back door of time that that tall basalt cliff conceals a doorway. We do not suspect this, nor that a long tunnel stretches away, far into the interior of majestic Shasta. Wholly unthought is it that there lie at the tunnel's far end vast apartments, the home of a mystic brotherhood, whose occult arts hollowed that tunnel and mysterious dwelling: "Sach" the name is. Are you incredulous as to these things? Go there, or suffer yourself to be taken as I was, once! See, as I saw, not with the vision of flesh, the walls, polished as by jewelers, though excavated as by giants; floors carpeted with long, fleecy gray fabric that looked like fur, but was a mineral product; ledges intersected by the builders, and in their wonderful polish exhibiting veinings of gold, of silver, of green copper ores, and maculations of precious stones. Verily, a mystic temple, made afar from the madding crowd, a refuge whereof those who, "Seeing, see not," can truly say:

"And no man knows . . .

"And no man saw it e'er."

The book, in case you care, identified America as the modern Atlantis and inspired the Lemurian Fellowship, which “educated” David Childress about ancient mysteries back in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Childress instead tells us that humans are “instinctively” drawn to mountains to find “extraterrestrial gods” who have “always” been there.

As always, despite the fact that most of the mountains profiled are open to the public, no ancient astronaut theorists went up even one of them to go find the artifacts, secret bases, or hidden aliens they claim are right there waiting for us.
18 Comments
spookyparadigm
12/14/2013 03:22:09 am

Surprised they didn't cover the heavily linkage made by ufologists etc. between volcanic mountains in Central Mexico and UFO sightings, as the UFOs are supposedly refueling.

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Miks DAntuono
12/16/2013 03:24:27 am

Jason ,
At first I did not realize that you Sir. Have done your home work. On America Un Earthed. So - I apologize for some earlier comments I had made over your Blog.I have read into some of your thoughts. I like how you are trying to de bunk most of the modern day ideas of relioion as well as The Ancient Idiots Show.
The program is becoming a farce . For folk lore sakes the Isle of man used as a Alien base . The home of the stories of leprechauns....first they use the fallen angle concept to announce that fallen angles are the alien's and we have had them all wrong... they really want to help man...What's left now, my little pony, Wow they show change the show's name to Myth Busters... These guy's account everything in history to Little green and greys starting human races by playing with our DNA......
Funny the study of flagellum not only dis proves their efforts, but also puts a huge block in the road so to say for evolutionists. This is the worlds greatest piece of Nano technology. It is depicted with a rutter , two moving gears( forward and reverse) a drives shaft , a complete protein factory, it's self powered and stores more data then any processor on earth. The data it held in 1 sperm holds 2 football stadiums full of books. It is also proved that if one working part is removed that id would completely fail as a cell and proves that it did not develop of time. This is what Darwin told us would de bunk his ideas if we were to find any micro organisms that did not over time evolve. His words not mine. I would love to hear wht you think about this. Not to argue, but to have a intelligent conversation with a non judgmental person. Thank you for your time...

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12/16/2013 04:00:36 am

I have come to realize that most people are Intolerance | Define Intolerance :lack of toleration; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc

Where we call our selves Intelligent - By Definition in·tel·li·gence ( n-t l -j ns). n. 1. a. The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. b. The faculty of thought and reason

Please interject. I have spoke to many people (Common people )
You don't find many who can't apply thought and reason. What you will find is mans need to prove them self better then one another. This incites the unwillingness of people or" refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or belief". I
At the same time a stories of little green guys... Dose not seem like a intelligent depiction of much of any thing. Giant Sky beings.. This is funny . These were the stories all Christians learned as kids .. We knew Angles fell here . From that stand point. But, Knotice how the attack on Christ and God and religion has festered up in the last 20 yrs . It is almost like it was set up to fail. Like a fail safe or something. This seems pre planned to change the culture of our children. In the 80's the vibe was Anarchy. Don't listen to your parents. This done mostly with music alone. For goodness sakes they really didn't show blood on tv. Now you can go watch people kill and torture people with you 10 yr. old ... That's normal? Now they are trying the ideology with my Kids . To what? To be in sensitive to people. Weather you agree or dis agree in This man Christ. He in history is the key point of all humanity. If you do not agree with me on that statement the you must argue with the historians and scholars who say this is a truth . I agree ,due to the fact that tickets to the Coliseum in Rome were the bones of who died there. They had dog piles for unwanted children . They were a disgusting race . Brutal and un human ... Hey maybe they were the Aliens... LOL ...Back to the point.. He started what we know as the modern day ideal of humanity... How could a man who never lived do that. Most importantly , how did a man as equal to a slave and compared to villains, have so much power in a world of that nature... Who would listen . Why would people still have faith in that person. Just a thought. Thank you for allowing me to share.








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J.A. Dickey
12/14/2013 03:45:54 am

Last summer, ELISSA SLATER blithely told a thriving community
of BIG BROTHER fans that Big-Bro's HAYDEN MOSS was in the
process of ending up in the very final TOP FOUR of SURVIVOR:
BLOOD VERSES WATER which dear ole CBS had yet to totally
film, even though SURVIVOR is often filmed way ahead, unlike
Big-Bro which is episodically 3 shows back to back within a
given week. ELISSA is RACHEL's younger sister, her fan-club
was initially "on loan" but then became loyal enough to hand her
a $25,000 prize as Big-Bro ended in September!!!! This was a
very big spoiler, it turns out production people can go from one of
the CBS shows to another. Someone at AMERICA UNEARTHED
is going to assume they have a BIG LEAK and that they are not
predictable when doing up episodes for a given current season!!!!
Double KUDOS to Jason becuz of how HISTORY fights for a big
market share! I swear that hot air balloons, geometry and a very precise grid pattern explain Nasca's lines better than a STAR TREK
spacecraft going back in time or even coming here from ANDROMEDA!


"Tsoukalos says that they escaped to the mountains to escape detection, but why? If they are a ruling master race, they don’t need to hide. Worse, whom are they hiding from since they were intimately involved with us down to the Middle Ages and beyond, if we take the show at its word? Are they only hiding from post-Enlightenment rationalists? If they are still coming to shamans, and tribal peoples, and even rural Americans, do they simply hate upper class urbanites?"

BINGO! SPOT ON!! YES... INDEED!!! GOOD Q!!!!

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Zach
12/14/2013 05:11:17 am

I find it funny how they didn't even touch the subject of Mount Sinai. It's like they just decided to cherrypick their own research, just to talk about subjects they know that most people don't know about or bother to look up. These guys will do anything they can to get away with their misinformation.

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Jason Colavito link
12/14/2013 05:43:36 am

It's almost like they just throw things together haphazardly based on a very loose theme and then write half-hearted narration to string together the talking heads.

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Jose Simental
12/14/2013 06:58:28 am

Great analysis Jason, as always!! Only one thing "the pans for the pyramids"? I think an alien desended from the mountains in a flying dragon and stole the "L".

Cheers!

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Jason Colavito link
12/14/2013 08:48:43 am

Actually, the aliens were giving cooking tips!

Thanks for pointing out the typo. I fixed it.

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charlie
12/14/2013 04:29:24 pm

OK, I admit, I did catch this episode last night. No, not at the "first" showing, the repeat. Granted, here in central Louisiana that was after midnight so I maybe was not quite paying total attention. My comment, or maybe hallucination, didn't it sound like the narrator was starting to talk the way Childress does? You know, sort of haltingly and emphasizing certain odd words?
Again, it may have been my brain playing on this old guy, but I swear, he did seem to have the cadence of Childress during the show.

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renegade011
12/15/2013 12:03:26 am

"Kathleen McGowan Coppens, who believes she is the lineal descendant of Jesus" - are you f@cking serious?

P.S. Just looked her up - you are f@cking serious. W.T.F.

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Uncle Ron
12/15/2013 06:03:58 am

Jason - god (and all the decedents of Jesus) bless you! I know it is important for someone to counter all this insufferable nonsense, but it must drive you half-fracking mad repudiating the same old gibberish day after day, week after week, year after year, in saecula saeculorum.

I find it hard to believe that a rational mind can assemble and hold together all the disparate parts of an AA, AU, Holy Bloodline, Templars ad nauseam, “belief system” AND at the same time NOT be able to see the truth of the much simpler, more logical, “mainstream” explanation for the observed data. (While there is a certain virtue in questioning authority, an alternative explanation is not inherently better simply because it is alternative.)

As you have pointed out, alternative hypotheses are based on the idea that human beings cannot do great things by themselves. Alien intervention or vast secret conspiracies are required to explain everything out of the ordinary. However, it requires more than a simple turning of a blind eye to dismiss out of hand the results of the empirical method of advancing knowledge, developed over millennia, in order to embrace ideas with no more foundation than the wishful assertion “it could have been”.

I know there is a religious aspect involved but that is for the unwashed masses; those whom you address are the priesthood. If the Tsoukalos’, the von Danikens, the Wolters of the world actually believe, then their egos are deluding them. If they don’t, and are just in it for the money, they are truly despicable, maybe even evil.

Despite the network’s protests this programming is NOT “presented” as entertainment; it is presented in the format of factual documentary information, and that is truly disturbing.

Anyway, keep up the good work. U.R.

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Joi_the_Artist link
12/17/2013 08:36:35 am

I love how the Pleiades are SUDDENLY the big deal and the origin of life, instead of Orion or Sirius. And it's oh-so-amazing that sooooo many diverse people groups would pay attention to the Pleiades; obviously, the fact that it's such a big bright sky feature that even modern-day city dwellers can see it means nothing. Nope, it was special because ALIENS.

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Mike DAntuono
12/18/2013 03:43:07 am

the Pleiades and Alien spring 's
funny From the very star disc... This is funny to me. If we take the text at the time literal as most astronaut theorists, then
We would have miss read it. It is written by the Annunaki , We are the princely offspring of
God. The Fallen ones. ....... how do we read and not understand.

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The Other J.
12/19/2013 05:30:56 am

I haven't watched more that about 30 minutes of this show in total, but the thing about Wilcock and a private security detail and William Henry freaking out -- that has my attention.

What does David Wilcock need a private security detail for? That has to be pricey. Why does he think he needs to guard the doors when he's talking? Is he really paranoid, or really into spectacle? And is William Henry that paranoid as well, or is he just into drawing attention to himself by crying "false imprisonment" when it's pretty clear that sort of thing would only be for show, or is it a combination of both -- paranoia that's used to fuel the need for attention?

The paranoia behind these sorts of subcultures is far more interesting than their own ideas. At least I think so.

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The Other J.
12/19/2013 05:38:20 am

I once went to a production of Sam Beckett's play "Catastrophe" at the Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin. After we were seated, the Irish National Guard stormed the prison, secured the entrances, occupied the balcony, and surrounded the crowd. They held Steyr AUG rifles and stood over us during the show.

It was all obviously PART of the show (and a bit heavy-handed), but I'd love to see what William Henry would have done in that situation.

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Jason Colavito link
12/19/2013 01:04:03 pm

In the "Psychic Vibrations" column, Robert Sheaffer writes about it, but he also posted it on his blog: http://badufos.blogspot.ae/2013/09/a-bizarre-horror-show-at-ufo-conference.html

It seems that Wilcock has a bodyguard (or more than one--the accounts vary) and a bomb sniffing dog, while Steven Greer, a ufologist, brought the multi-man security team with Black Ops shirts. Together they had their men block the entrances to the hall doors, and William Henry became enraged because his wife has a condition and needed to get out. I guess the idea is that having the guards reinforces the concept that someone is out to silence them.

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Grzegorz
1/17/2014 11:44:27 pm

Hello Jason,
Thank you very much. That AA nonsense makes me insane every time I watch any episode of this garbage; however your great work brings me back to the point that I can at least as a human add two plus two without waiting for an extraterrestrial help.

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Bandot
8/6/2016 05:35:00 pm

I don't think Shasta is a good place for an alien base as it's an active volcano and seismically active. But I suppose anything is possible when you don't understand what your talking about. AA is mainly bad science, that creates its own reality, and dare I say religion.

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